*VIDEO AVAILABLE: info@covermg.com*This is the incredible moment the U.S. Coast Guard took out a drug smuggling boat's engine with a bullet. Footage shows warning shots strafing across the water in front of the fast-moving boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, before a marksman disabled the vessel's engine. It is thought that the warning shots from the helicopter would have been fired with a mounted M240 machine gun, while the disabling round would have come from a precision rifle. The scenes are among highlights of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton patrol boat as it returned to Coast Guard Island on 29 June after a 94-day counter-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. During the tour, The crew detected and interdicted five suspected drug smuggling vessels, detained 14 suspected drug smugglers and seized over 6,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $113 million. The Stratton's advanced capabilities include a small unmanned aircraft system, an attached Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron MH-65 helicopter and aircrew, and an embarked Law Enforcement Detachment from the Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team. On June 27, Stratton's crew offloaded 3,720 pounds of marijuana seized in known drug-transit zones in early June by Coast Guard and U.S. Navy assets. The contraband and five suspected drug smugglers were transferred to the Department of Justice officials in San Diego for prosecution. Stratton's deployment began in late March as part of U.S. Southern Command's enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs in support of Presidential National Security Objectives.Where: East Pacific OceanWhen: 09 Jul 2020Credit: USCG/Cover Images**Editorial use only*VIDEO AVAILABLE: info@covermg.com***

Ameriška vojska na ukaz predsednika Donalda Trumpa od septembra lani izvaja napade na plovila v Karibih in vzhodnem Pacifiku, za katera sumijo, da tihotapijo droge v ZDA. Foto: Reuters

V novem ameriškem napadu na domnevni čoln z mamili štirje mrtvi

Ameriška vojska je v torek sporočila, da so bili na vzhodu Tihega oceana v napadu na čoln, ki naj bi prevažal mamila, ubiti štirje ljudje. Gre za četrti tovrsten napad v zadnjem tednu, poročajo tuje tiskovne agencije.

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Na podlagi obveščevalnih ocen je plovilo plulo po znani poti za prevoz drog in naj bi bilo vpleteno v tihotapljenje mamil, je na družbenem omrežju X sporočilo južno poveljstvo ZDA (Southcom).

Pred tem je bilo v dveh podobnih napadih v soboto ubitih pet ljudi, v ponedeljek pa dva človeka, poroča francoska tiskovna agencija AFP.

Ameriška vojska na ukaz predsednika Donalda Trumpa od septembra lani izvaja napade na plovila v Karibih in vzhodnem Pacifiku, za katera sumijo, da tihotapijo droge v ZDA. Po uradnih podatkih, ki jih navaja nemška tiskovna agencija dpa, je bilo v teh napadih ubitih več kot 160 ljudi.

ZDA se soočajo z velikim problemom mamil, ki ga oblasti pogosto pripisujejo tujim mrežam za tihotapljenje drog. Trumpova vlada vztraja, da je dejansko v vojni s t. i. narkoteroristi, ki delujejo v Latinski Ameriki. Vendar pa doslej ni predložila nobenih dokazov, da so plovila, ki jih napada, vpletena v trgovino z mamili.

Kritiki poudarjajo, da ameriški napadi na plovila v mednarodnih vodah pomenijo kršitev mednarodnega prava.

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